Re: Databases

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Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:26:33 +0300

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Date:         Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:26:33 +0300
From: mailto:ali00law@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Databases
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

My first two questions for you would be... 1) You are just looking for a
database for your images, not "image manipulation" right? (I think of image
manipulation as Photoshop or the like) and 2) what platform are you using
Mac and IBM?

Lisa Weedman Media Services/Graphics The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

>I'm looking for image manipulation software with odd properties:
>
>I'd like to be able to 1)search a database of images 2) select, by choosing
>individually, a sub-group of the total database; 3) name and have the ability
>to recall instantly this sub-group (and other subgroups) 4) have the ability
>to edit this sub-group easily (swapping out one image for another, and to
>change the position of an image in the subgroup, hopefully by dragging it) 5)
>be able to assign keywords to any image I choose, and thus the ability to
>recall any images labeled with the same keyword(s). Finally, and probably
>unattainably in any existing package (?) I'd like the ability to assign any
>subgroup to a timeline. So that, for instance, I can take an icon
>representing subgroup A and drag it to year 1, or year two, or year three on
>my timeline. By double-clicking on the timeline, I would like to be able to
>see which subgroups have been placed where, within it.